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Get a room you two.

Yes, sorry we have gone on a bit!

Have a read of this if you want to see some more slightly iffy things carried out by the angelic board of BRFC, obviously for the benefit of BRFC and it's supporters.http://br-isc.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/cowlin-sold-for-52m.html

So six years ago Nick Higgs was given shares, so that the board could get someone with construction experience involved to sort out the stadium. Well the football side is a mess but that part seems to have worked out OK.

hahaha threatening me with solicitors oh dear how sad. Just going by what your own fans have said.

I'm not threatening you with anything. I'm just pointing out that a number of Rovers fans have found themselves in an inconvenient position when making allegations they couldn't substantiate, even when doing so on a theoretically anonymous forum. I doubt that Geoff Dunford reads this forum anyway.

Let's cut the crap, the rugby club were in trouble and you took advantage of that to gain ownership of the site. Didn't you also try and do the same to us in 82? So you have form for it. Dunford then pocketed the money from the housing. Remember around the same time you sold some players for high value and Dunford put that into his bank account also.

The rugby club invited us to be tenants because they needed the money. They would have gone into administration and lost the ground whether Rovers were there or not. In 1982 an offer was made for Ashton Gate to the receivers by a member of the Rovers board. The offer was rejected by the receivers and one from the new board of the reformed club accepted. I wouldn't have thought that making an offer for a football ground when you don't own one of your own was particularly reprehensible. Certainly no worse than leaving unpaid debts and torn up contracts.

I do hope you have some facts to back up your comments about housing money and transfer income. If you are suggesting that he did anything illegal, Mr Dunford does have form for involving solicitors.

Haha Jelous of the sags? Never in my life have I laughed so much. When I was a youngster tge 1st ever game I attended was a Rovers game due to being given free tickets but it just didn't do it for me, a few weeks later and I was taken to a City game, instantly I caught the bug despite being from north of the river. I find Rovers suffer from small club syndrome and like wise your fans all suffer from small dick syndrome.

I find your club and your fanbase vile and disgusting, I can give you many reasons for this if you wish?

You keep telling yourself your stadium is in a brilliant location (keep telling yourself you got a massive dick too) but the truth is your getting a shitty concreate bowl in a location that is a 20 min walk from anywhere. I would much rather be at Ashton Gate with all the traditional pubs very nearby instead of having to walk 20 mins to a Holiday Inn. Oh and as already pointed out Parson Street is less of a walk than Abbeywood. Your Stadium will be hidden behind UWE and the MOD, best place for it imo.

I think your the jealous one because SL chose to invest in us rather than yourselves.

Do you not feel slightly bad that you stole a ground off the rugby club and will now be using that to part fund your new stadium?But saying that I doubt even the rugby club are bothard now considering they are owned by a billionaire and are about to move to the largest and only sports stadium in Bristol.

These new houses you speak of? Considering it's not a council estate they are building then these well off well educated residents are hardly gonna choose to follow one of the worst teams in the entire football league with no morals with a very poor track record for welcoming families.

I think you will see a surge in attendences to start with, all clubs do but you certainly wont do a Reading etc. It takes more than a new stadium to achieve that.

No one has yet explained how you will be debt free and making money from this yet?

I remember hearing all this noise when you was going to redevelop the Memorial Ground, everything was all set to go ahead, contracts had been signed to move to Cheltenham, season tickets even went on sale and the ground was never touched. The fat lady hasn't started singing just yet.

How confident are you that Sainsburys still want to go theough with the deal? A lot has changed in the retail word since the deal was agreed and the big supermarkets are becoming more of a rariety. You may well be aware that Sainsburys already have a store close to the site of your proposed stadium, it's what a ten min drive down Filton Ave to the prosed site of the new store? Considering the way retail is at the moment they may think it's not really necessary to build one so close to an exisiting store.

As a City fan, of course you will prefer Ashton Gate just as Rovers fans will prefer UWE. Both sets of supporters should be happy, I don't understand why the UWE site provokes such a lively response from you. A neutral observer might think you were worried by it for some reason. To regard an entire fan base as "vile and disgusting", is no more logical than disliking all people of a different nationality or religion.

Sainsbury's have already signed legally binding contracts to acquire the Mem. They will make an awful lot of money in the BS7 area, which is why they are willing to pay a premium for the site.

The then chairman (Arthur Holmes) did not sell the training ground, the Memorial stadium company did. This was after the rugby club went into administration and folded, giving the Rovers board the chance to buy the remaining 50% of the shares .

It's perfectly true to say the Memorial Stadium Company sold the training ground, however the option to buy it had already been sold by the rugby club. It was up to the housing firm to decide when or if they wanted to exercise their right to buy.

Unless I'm mistaken the only access into the new stadium will be from the ring road. That is unless there will be unlimited access to all of the UWE site from Chiswick village and surrounding area, which I seriously doubt. Post us a link to the access routes in the travel plans, I seriously am interested.

Only access by car is from the ring road. There will be a pedestrian route through Chiswick Village. Access by bus will be possible via the bus only road that runs past the stadium.

What is getting to me nailsea cookie, is you constantly posting about gas on here, I for one don't want to have your good news pushed down my throat, I also have a i assue that minutes after mr justice gashead ruled in favour of the rovers last week their was a #### the sheeds thread on your forum ( from the same group of people who were asking for our support a few weeks ago ) I have a big issue that you are shamelessl attempting to sell for profit a ground that was left to Bristol as a memorial to war dead, with the expres condition that it only be used for sport, many people claim to have seen this convent ( which mysteriously dissapeared when the cuckoos took the nest over ) and I sincerely hope one of these people will put in a objection ! ( perhaps Baron pantsdown of Guernsey as you lot sohumourously call him ) will fund it !

If there ever was a covenant, it disappeared a long time ago. The rugby club sold an option to a housing company to build on the training pitch, which was about a third of the site. If a covenant existed that would not have been possible.

Something else I found out, UWE will still own the freehold on the ground with Roverzzz taking on an approximate 100 year lease, so you're still rent boys ;-)

That's hardly news on the lease KITR. It's actually 125 years. On a non-partisan note, that's GCCC, City, Rovers, and Bristol Rugby all playing in new, or redeveloped stadia within the next couple of years. Perhaps Bristol will finally get a sporting profile to match its best city in England label.